Dauber



Feb. 2 1926.. I 1,571,254

C. B. FOOTE panama Filed Oct. 29. 1921 Patented Feb. 2, 1926.

. UNITED. STATES PATENT CHARLES B. FOOTE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DAUBER.

Application filed October 29, 1921. Serial No. 511,451.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, C-rmnnns B. Foo'rn, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and State of New York, have invented the following described Improvements in Daubers.

My invention provides a combined container and hand dauber for mucilage that is simple, inexpensive and highly practical, and has as a special object to avoid serious objections inherent in articles of the kind specified as heretofore known. The dauber may however be used for other liquids as will hereinafter appear.

In the drawings, Figures 1, 2 and 3 are respectively sectional elevations of different forms of my invention.

The mucilage is contained in a rigid receptacle represented by the round glass bottle 1, the mouth of which is closed by a porous textile fabric 2 stretched flat across the open end of the contracted bottle neck and fastened thereon by the band or ferrule 3. The material 2 constitutes the mucilage spreader and is of a sufficiently large mesh to permit the mucilage to percolate slowly through it when rubbed flatwise over the surface to receive the mucilage, a smear of the latter being left wherever the fabric touches. On the other hand, the fabric 2 should be sulli ciently tight to prevent the continuous escape of the bottle contents when the bottle is left upright resting 011 its mouth as shown in Fig. 1. One or more thicknesses of any fabric meeting these requirements may be used and I have found the ordinary cotton gauze bandage or surgical dressing well adapted for the purpose. hen not in use the bottle is intended to stand on its mouth in a hollow socket holder 6 having a wide or weighted base 7 to maintain it upright. The bottom or floor portion of the holder on which the bottle rests flat on its gauze covered mouth as shown, is of considerably greater area than the bottle mouth so that the upturned sides of the gauze are kept out of contact with the holder and the holder walls rise to a point below the closed bottle end, Figs. 1 and 3, preferably just sufficient to permit a hand grip on the bottle and form only a narrow crevice through which the air has continuous access to the mucilage on the gauze and the smear of mucilage on the holder floor. It may now the observed that in articles of this kind, a gauze closure for the container mouth is desirable and preferable to the perforated metal closures, felt,

etc. commonly employed heretofore, but that as these articles have been designed heretofore the leakage and mucilage' left on the closure by use is likely to stick the latter fast to the holder so that inv practice thin gauze alone may not be used but a closure of greater strength must be employed. I have avoided this action and rendered the use of gauze alone practicable by employing, as above pointed out, a bottom for the holder that is of greater area than the bottle mouth and by extending the holder wall: so far up the bottle as to substantially prevent the continuous access of fresh air and thus materially delaying the drying ofthe' smear on the holder floor. The closed end 8 of the liquid container 1 is convex to prevent the container being set down outside the holder with the moistened gauze upward, while ad- ]acent this convex end, that is to say, at approximately the points 9-9, the external diameter of the bottle of Fig. 1 is greater than the internal diameter of the open end or mouth of the holder to prevent the bottle being put into the holder with the gauze end up. This enlarged diameter is preferably localized, that is to say, is also greater than the diameter at any other point on the bottle,-

and is formed near the closed end of the bottle in order that the vertical supporting walls of the holder may extend the desired distance above the holder floor as shown in Figure 1 where these walls extend for more than half the length of the bottle. Except for this enlarged portion, the bottle is sulficiently smaller than the holder to slip readily into the holder, mouth end down, and it is preferably tapered for this purpose as in Fig. 1 and the shoulder or shoulders 12 at the base of the bottle neck are arranged at an acute angle to the bottle axis and rounded or merged gradually into the side Walls of the bottle, whereby the bottle may be dropped easily into the holder even when presented to the latter at an angle. The cap 13, which closes the holder in Fig. 1, may be of metal or other suitable material like the holder 6 and base 7, and inthis figure is intended to be removably set as a cover over the end of the bottle, for the sake of appearance and in order to lessen any tendency for the mucilage to dry out during long periods of disuse. However, the cap may, if desired, be attached to the bottle as shown at 15 in Fig. and this may be done in any suitable manner, as by screw threads, or by cement as shown, etc. So attachmg the cap permits the use of a more simply formed bottle, that is to say, one of a uniform diameter for example as shown in Fig. 2, since the cap in this instance provides the enlarged diameter which prevents the insertion of the container into the holder with the mouth end up. This construction also permits the side walls of the holder 6 to extend substantially the full length of the bottle.

Figure 3 illustrates a tapered holder used with a tapered bottle such as shown in Figure 1; this form of holder, while perhaps somewhat more difficult to make than that of Fig. 1, better insures the resting of the bottle mouth perfectly fiat on the holder bottom.

It will be understood that my invention is not limited to the specific details hereinbefore described and shown in the drawings but is set forth in the following claim.

Claim:

The dauber combination comprising a container for the liquid having a mouth at one end covered by a gauze stretched across it, and a holder to receive said liquid container comprising a base member to maintain the holder upright, a flat floor portion, and supporting walls to support said containerupright with its gauze covered mouth resting fiat on said floor portion, said supporting walls rising from said base member outside said floor portion and spaced from the gauze covering said mouth and extending a considerable part of the entire length of the container above said holder floor, and the end of the container opposite itsmouth being convex and its largest external transverse dimension being located above the top of said supporting walls when the container rests on its mouth on the'holder floor and being greater than the internal transverse dimension between the supporting walls so that the container can not be inserted into the holder with the gauze covered mouth outside the same.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification.

CHARLES B. FOOTE. 

